measure rests with bar management. All too often, as Administrator Feinberg points out, bar owners accopt homosexual patronage as a means of stepping up business. Their concern becomes one of making a "fast buck" before the ABC steps in, and in so doing they nurture the "anything goes" philosophy to appeal to the hordes.

If the bar owner wishes to keep his place open and ye t cultivate a homosexual following, it would behoove him to set up some "house rules". Certainly misconduct on the part of the patrons can be controlled and the offonders barred from the premises without a decline in receipts.

Recommended reading for all "gay" bar owners is Helen Branson's book, "Gay Bar", published by Pan-Graphic Press. The book demonstrates that contrary to folklore the re can be a whole some atmosphere in this type of bar. Copies of this volume may be obtained through the DOB (see ad on page 26).

THE ADMINISTRATIVE ROLE

To dato the ABC has concentrated its efforts of law onfor cement against "gay" bars per se without any attempt to differentiate between activity which merely points to the fact that the patrons are homosexuals and activity which is actually contrary to the public welfare or morals.

We submit that the police vico squads, the state legislators and the ABC administrators should take a realistic look at the facts. There are many thousands of homosexuals in every large city throughout the country. They are human beings more like the rost of the populace than difforont. They are citizens of tho so United States and as such are entitled to those civil rights set forth under the provisions of our Constitution.

"No amount of condemration, criticism, entrapment or incarceration in penal and mental institutions can wipe out the fact of the existence of this tremendously large minority," states Dr. Blanche M. Baker, psychiatrist, in hor introduction to the book, "Gay Bar".

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